---
type: "Bill"
title: "RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS."
description: "Allows a patient who has been seen in person by a health care provider who is in the same medical group as the prescribing provider authorized pursuant to section 329-33, HRS, to be prescribed an opiate prescription for a three-day supply or less via telehealth. (SD1)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/hi"
legislature: "Hawaii Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 951"
citation: "Hawaii HB 951 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care Providers", "Opiates", "Physicians", "Prescriptions", "Prescriptive Authority", "Telehealth", "Three-day Supply"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["CHUN", "GARRETT", "HOLT", "KILA", "MARTEN", "MATAYOSHI", "PERRUSO", "PIERICK", "TAKAYAMA", "TAKENOUCHI", "TAM", "TODD"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/937a291a-32a6-4acd-b58d-b7294687f0de"
source_url: "https://capitol.hawaii.gov/session/archives/measure_indiv_Archives.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=951&year=2025"
source_hash: "da246d0c77ba03ab1876a0aae8422e91012b71bd1a912818b3ae4d2f4507f0ce"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-hi"]
---

# Hawaii HB 951 (2025) — RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Allows a patient who has been seen in person by a health care provider who is in the same medical group as the prescribing provider authorized pursuant to section 329-33, HRS, to be prescribed an opiate prescription for a three-day supply or less via telehealth. (SD1)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB951** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/HB951_.HTM)
2. **HB951_HD1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/HB951_HD1_.HTM)
3. **HB951_HD2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/HB951_HD2_.HTM)
4. **HB951_SD1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/HB951_SD1_.HTM)

## Votes

- Reconsider: The committee on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — **3–1** (pass) · upper
- The committee on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Reconsider: Report Adopted; Passed Third Reading. — **23–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- CHUN — primary (person)
- GARRETT — primary (person)
- HOLT — primary (person)
- KILA — primary (person)
- MARTEN — primary (person)
- MATAYOSHI — primary (person)
- PERRUSO — primary (person)
- PIERICK — primary (person)
- TAKAYAMA — primary (person)
- TAKENOUCHI — primary (person)
- TAM — primary (person)
- TODD — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-05-16** Act 065, on 05/16/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1165). `became-law`
- **2025-05-16** Act 065, 05/16/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1165). `became-law`
- **2025-04-21** Transmitted to Governor.
- **2025-04-22** Received notice of House agreement and passage on Final Reading (Hse. Com. No. 794). `receipt`
- **2025-04-21** Passed Final Reading as amended in SD 1 with Representative(s) Garcia voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran excused (1). `passage`
- **2025-04-21** House agrees to Senate amendment(s).
- **2025-04-21** Received notice of House reconsideration of action in disagreeing to the amendments proposed by the Senate (Hse. Com. No. 759). `receipt`
- **2025-04-17** Reconsideration of action taken on 04-08-25.
- **2025-04-10** Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 621). `receipt`
- **2025-04-08** House disagrees with Senate amendment (s). `amendment-failure`
- **2025-04-04** Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 581) in amended form (SD 1).
- **2025-04-04** Report Adopted; Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 23; Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 2 (Senator(s) Awa, DeCorte). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House. `passage`
- **2025-04-03** One Day Notice 04-04-25.
- **2025-04-03** Reported from CPN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1643) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading.
- **2025-03-27** The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in CPN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) Awa; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Richards. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-21** The committee(s) on CPN will hold a public decision making on 03-27-25 9:30AM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.
- **2025-03-21** Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to CPN. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** Reported from HHS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1261) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to CPN.
- **2025-03-17** The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Hashimoto, Keohokalole, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** The committee(s) on HHS has scheduled a public hearing on 03-17-25 1:00PM; Conference Room 225 & Videoconference.
- **2025-03-06** Referred to HHS, CPN. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** Passed First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-06** Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 305). `introduction, receipt`
- **2025-03-04** Passed Third Reading as amended in HD 2 with Representative(s) Alcos, Garcia, Matsumoto voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Pierick, Ward excused (2). Transmitted to Senate. `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25.
- **2025-02-28** Reported from CPC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1042) as amended in HD 2, recommending passage on Third Reading.
- **2025-02-19** The committee on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Matayoshi, Chun, Ilagan, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Kong, Lowen, Marten, Tam, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-14** Bill scheduled to be heard by CPC on Wednesday, 02-19-25 2:00PM in House conference room 329 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
- **2025-02-12** Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with Representative(s) Alcos, Garcia voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Sayama, Ward excused (3). `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Reported from HLT (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 515) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to CPC.
- **2025-02-07** The committee on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Takayama, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Amato, Chun, Marten, Olds, Takenouchi, Alcos; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Garcia; Noes: none; and Excused: none. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-05** Bill scheduled to be heard by HLT on Friday, 02-07-25 8:45AM in House conference room 329 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
- **2025-01-23** Referred to HLT, CPC, referral sheet 3 `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Introduced and Pass First Reading. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-01-21** Pending introduction.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/937a291a-32a6-4acd-b58d-b7294687f0de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).